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The main advantage of in situ thermal treatment is that it allows soil to be treated without being excavated and transported, resulting in significant cost savings. However, in situ treatment generally requires longer time periods, and there is less certainty about the uniformity of treatment because of the variability in soil and aquifer characteristics and because the efficacy of the process is ...

The main advantage of ex situ treatments is that they generally require shorter time periods, and there is more certainty about the uniformity of treatment because of the ability to screen, homogenize, and continuously mix the soils. Ex situ processes, however, require excavation of soils leading to increased costs and engineering for equipment, possible permitting, and materials handling worker ...

Sewage sludge is a by-product generated from municipal wastewater treatment (WWT) processes. This study examines the conversion of sludge via energy recovery from gasification/combustion for thermal treatment of dewatered sludge. The present analysis is based on a chemical equilibrium model of thermal conversion of previously dewatered sludge with moisture content of 60–80%. Prior to ...

ARA Pustertal AG operates the Tobler wastewater treatment plant in South Tyrol, Italy. The Tobler ARA facility is the fi rst and only water treatment plant in Central Europe that is housed in an underground cavern. The impressive cavern plant, whose tunnels are twice as large as that of a highway tunnel, began operation in July, 1996. The inclusion of a sludge drying plant and a thermal sludge ...

Hot gas decontamination: Hot gas decontamination is a technology still in the pilot-scale of development that can be used for decontamination of explosives-contaminated masonry or metallic structures. The method involves sealing and insulating the structures, heating with hot gas stream to 260 °C (500 °F) for a prescribed period of time, volatilizing the explosive contaminants, and destroying ...

In the present study an attempt has been made to recover phosphorus in the presence of poly P and to disintegrate sludge through combinative treatment. Primarily the sludge was treated by thermal method at a temperature range of 40° to 90°C. During thermal treatment, enhanced biological phosphorous removal (EBPR) sludge releases poly P and is found to be maximum at 60°C for three hours. Increase ...

Most wastewater treatment processes produce a by-product that purifies wastewater before it is released into local waterways. This by-product is named as sludge. Typically in solid, semi-solid or liquid state, it is in fact an amalgamation of all the liquid wastes that are discharged by domestic houses, commercial properties, industry, and/or agriculture after aerobic biological treatment. ...

ABSTRACT The sludge disposal in Europe is affected by international trends and legislation as well as national and local situations. Some important trends are: Safe utilization of nutrients Safe utilization of energy Disinfection especially by requiring heat treatment Restrictions and increased costs towards landfill and incineration ...

The paper is a case study of the construction, commissioning and operation of a new 21,000 tonnes dry solids per annum sludge treatment centre at Anglian Water’s wastewater treatment works at Cottonvalley, Milton Keynes. The construction of the new sludge treatment centre was completed in summer 2008 and is part of Anglian Water’s £95 million AMP5 biosolids programme to provide treatment capacity ...

The thermal hydrolysis process (THP) is a sludge treatment technique which affects anaerobic biodegradability, viscosity and dewaterability of waste activated sludge (WAS). In 2011 a THP-pilot plant was operated, connected to laboratory-scale digesters, at the water board Regge en Dinkel and in cooperation with Cambi A.S. and MWH Global. Thermal hydrolysis of WAS resulted in a 62% greater ...

The oxic–settling–anoxic (OSA) process is one of the sludge production reduction methods in the activated sludge process. In this method, sludge is stored in an anaerobic tank within the sludge return line before entrance into an aeration tank. Due to this method's flexibility in application to operating treatment plants and not being energy-consuming, its application is developing. In this ...

The effectiveness of acidic thermal treatment (ATT) was examined in a 106-day continuous experiment, when applied to one- or two-stage anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge (4.3% TS). The ATT was performed at 170°C and pH 5 for 1 hour (sulfuric acid for lowering pH). The one-stage process was mesophilic at 20 days hydraulic retention time (HRT), and incorporated the ATT as pre-treatment. The ...

ABSTRACT Thermal hydrolysis of sewage sludge as a pretreatment technique for producing a “Class A” sludge, with existing (or new) mesophilic anaerobic digestion systems are presently being considered for wastewater treatment plants in the USA and Canada. In Europe, a number of innovative hydrolysis systems have been installed or are planned. One technology sold under the trade name CAMBITM has ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dublin's Ringsend WWTP was designed to serve a population of approximately 1.2 million pe with a sludge production of 37,000 dry tonnes per year after upgrading to full secondary treatment. Several technical solutions were put forward as part of a Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) competition, with the chosen solution being a proposal by Black and Veatch for a ...

Abstract Mesophilic and thermophilic digestion of primary and activated sludge was investigated in lab scale reactors. Mixed primary and activated sludge was digested in one experiment and activated sludge was digested alone in another. The same gas yield, COD and dry solids reduction was obtained with both mesophilic and thermophilic digestion. However, more dissolved COD was found after ...

ABSTRACT High-solids mesophilic anaerobic digestion (HS-MAD) processes employing thermal hydrolytic pretreatment (THP) have gained much interest in recent years; primarily because they have been shown to produce Class A biosolids in accordance with EPA 503 regulations, but also because they represent an economical approach to the maximization of available anaerobic digester volume. The ...

ABSTRACT Sludge disposal in Europe is affected by international trends and legislation, national and local situations, and of course economics. Some important trends are: Safe utilization of organic material and nutrients in the agriculture Sensitivity to energy costs Disinfection, especially by requiring batch heat treatment Restrictions and ...

Centralised treatment of various sources of industrial waste has been established in many European countries over the last decade. Many facilities are still equipped with non state of the art technology and therefore cannot fulfil the broad field of applications with regard to industrial waste remediation. econ's international client decided to be one step ahead and erected a new econ industries ...

Common treatment technologies for fuels in soil, sediment, and sludge include biodegradation, incineration, SVE, and low temperature thermal desorption. Incineration is typically used when chlorinated SVOCs are also present with fuel, and not specified for fuel-only contaminated soil, sediment, or sludge. All types of biodegradation, both in situ or ex situ, can be used to remediate soils: ...

ABSTRACT The basic principles of batch thermal hydrolysis process (THP) are well known as a pre-treatment to anaerobic digestion (AD) . Early work done in the 70s in the USA and the 80s in Japan demonstrated the optimum time and temperature for thermal hydrolysis being 340 F for 30minutes. These principles have been put into full practice in 20 plants around the world at plants ranging from 5 ...

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